Page:VCH Cornwall 1.djvu/443

EARLY MAN 4 ft. in diameter, having a rounded hole through it, 2 1 in. by 19 in. in diameter. The westernmost stone has been moved and brought into a straight line with the other two since 1815. Borlase, Antiq. 177 and pi.; Paris, Guide to Mounts Bay, 77; Edmonds, op. cit. 19 and 212 ; Journ. Roy. Inst. Corniv. iv (1872), 152; Lukis, op. cit. 17, pi. xxxiv. ST. BURIAN. At Rosemoddress, N. of circle. The stone is 5 ft. 4 in. in height, now used as a gate-post; the hole is 5^- in. in diameter. Borlase, Naen. Corn. 214; Lukis, op. cit. 17, pi. xxxiii ; Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1862), 27. At Rosemoddress, E. of circle, now used as a gatepost. Borlase, Naen. Corn. 214; Lukis, op. cit. I and 22. ST. JUST. The four-holed stones at Tregeseal are described in the chapter on 'The Stone Circles ' (post). At Tregiffian ; the stone roughly round, 1 ft. in diameter, the hole 6 in. in diameter ; moved and now lost. Lukis, op. cit. 17 and 27, pi. xxxiii. SANCREED. At Boswarthen. Stone 3 ft. 3 in. in height ; hole near the top 3^ in. in diameter. Now used as a gatepost. Lukis, op. cit. 1 7, pi. xxxiii. TOLVAN. Near Gweek, in Constantine, a triangular flat stone, upright, 7 ft. 9 in. in height ; near the exact centre is a hole I ft. 4 in. in diameter. Journ. Roy. Inst. Corniv. (1862), 24; Lukis, op. cit. 17, pi. xxxiii. WENDRON. Similar to the Tregiffian Stone, but the hole is not in the centre. Lukis, op. cit. 17, pi. xxxiii. There are probably many more holed stones of this description in the county, which are not recorded. The small square stones with large holes, such as those at Trelew in St. Burian l and in the lane leading to Rosemod- dress * are axle-stones, made to take the wooden axles of the water-wheels, before iron was used. ANCIENT BRITISH COINS Examples of uninscribed gold coins of the types recorded by Sir John Evans, 5 as Plate A, Nos. 4 and 5 ; Plate B, No. 6 ; Plate D, No. 4 ; and Plate E, No. 9, have been found at Carn Brea. Borlase, in his Antiquities of Cornwall (1754), gives a plate showing twenty-five of these coins. Another coin, inscribed ' Catti,' was found at Camborne 4 in the year 1865. QUERNS, ETC. In Cornwall, especially in the west, stone querns are found in con- siderable numbers, both round and saddle, and others which are merely a circular pit in a large flat stone with a round handstone for grinding : specimens of these latter were found in Chyoon Castle and in one of the huts at Chysauster. Although querns of this sort are very primitive, there is reason to believe that they were in use in Cornwall down to a comparatively late date. There is a particularly good collection of these in the Penzance Museum. Circular flat stones are also often found, the use of which is at present unknown. Stone bowls or basins, some not more than 3 in. in diameter, are also found ; these are always of very neat finish and may have been in many cases stoups used in the old chapels or oratories. TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF SMALL ANTIQUITIES ALTARNUN. Flint scrapers, knives, arrow-heads, etc., at Trewint Moor. Journ. Roy. Inst. Cormv. (1888), 350. There is said to be an underground building or fogou at West Came. Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1888), 342, and another between Roughtor and Buttern Hill. Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. viii (1885), 252. BODMIN. Stone with pit-marking. Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. x (1890), 1 88. 1 Lukis, op. cit. 17, and pi. xxxiii, No. 4. ' Borlase, Naen. Corn. 214 ; Lukis, op. cit. I and zz. ' Evans, Anct. Brit. Coins, 50, 51, 62, 8 i, 94.. 4 Evans, Anct. Brit. Coins, 488. 373